‘The Gipper’ goes to Springfield? House task force weighs adding Reagan statue to Illinois Capitol grounds – Chicago Sun-Times*

Ronald Reagan’s story — the only U.S. president to be born and raised in the state, growing up in a low-income family and being admitted to college on a need-based scholarship — transcends party lines, Eureka College's Josem Diaz said. “It is about the opportunity, and that is the story here, to remind our young generations to come that anyone from any walk of life — or any first generation student — can aspire to be the next president of the United States.”